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Re: British Rail InterCity 125-ish
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 26 Apr 2002 00:19:31 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, James Mathis writes:
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> Obviously, the train-specific nose and cab window don't model the IC125's
> unique nose very well, but I thought the look was close enough for a try.
I think your excellent APT nose profile would work
better on the 125. Did you try it?
> If you view the European Railway Picture Gallery of the IC125, you may
> notice that there are several (slight?) variations on the color scheme.
> Some with dark blue (or black?) at the level of the windows, others with
> white at window level. Some have full yellow nose with trailing yellow.
> Others have a trailing white with only a patch of yellow on the front-face.
> Some have a red stripe, others don't. etc... Are all of these color schemes
> still Brit-Rail "Blue Era"? Perhaps some were left-overs during the
> transition to privatized rail companies?
The picture of the 125 at Reading you have is curious. If I didn't
know better, I'd say the loco is "between" paint jobs, as the
livery is a bit weird. Probably mid-80's. If you look at the coaches,
they have the 1980's "InterCity" livery, which is actually a very dark
grey with white and red stripes IIRC. The older livery was simply blue and
white, without any stripes as you have on your coaches. These colour
schemes were all pre-privatisation, at a time when BR didn't know what the
hell colour to paint their trains...
See an example here:
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/markshipman/railway/images/43/43121a.jpg
Incidently, your blue with red and white stripe livery actually
closely resembles Network South East livery!
Lots of 125 liveries here:
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/markshipman/railway/class43.htm
> I recall one of you fellows in The UK built a red/black Virgin-badged HST IC
> 125 some years ago. I also remember that you sculpted the lower inverse
> slope of the cab very nicely. If you read this, I'd love to take another
> look at it.
It certainly wasn't me (sadly), but I think I have
a jpeg of that somewhere. I'll look it out.
James H
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| (...) I haven't tried adapting the APT nose to this IC 125. I am trying to find a use for the 4559 nose elements-- not that I can actually build this IC 125 in real-bricks, for I know of no source for the 1x4x1.3 rounded bricks in light gray, blue, (...) (23 years ago, 26-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| Lonely shapes sit in my box of train-specific parts. What to do with the train yellow nose and black cab parts from set 4559? They've sat so lonely for years. Well, still they sit unused, for this model is merely CAD-form for now. Now, for nothing (...) (23 years ago, 23-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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